Just for the record, the issue is that you use double quotes on the command line, which will interpolate any $ variables, so raku only saw the interpolated value, which was nothing.
On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 12:48 William Michels via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:22 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am going through the examples on > > https://docs.perl6.org/type/Map.html > > > > $ p6 "my $map = Map.new('a', 1, 'b', 2); say $map{'a'}; say $map{ 'a', > > 'b' };" > > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > > Malformed my > > at -e:1 > > ------> my = Map.new('a', 1, 'b', 2); say {'a'}; > > > > What the heck is a 'Malformed my"? I copied and pasted > > from the second set of examples. > > I got that to work no problem--on both the command line and in the > REPL. For the command line I just made sure that the outer quotes were > single quotes while the inner were double quotes (on a Mac): > > mbook:~ homedir$ perl6 -e 'my $map = Map.new("a", 1, "b", 2); say > $map{"a"}; say $map{ "a", "b" };' > 1 > (1 2) > mbook:~ homedir$ perl6 > To exit type 'exit' or '^D' > > my $map = Map.new("a", 1, "b", 2); say $map{"a"}; say $map{ "a", "b" }; > 1 > (1 2) > > $*VM > moar (2019.07.1) > > > > HTH, Bill. > > > > > > > And why is the first example: > > %e := Map.new > > and the second example > > $e = Map.new > > ? > > > > Many thanks, > > -T >
